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getuser() and putuser() (and there underscored variants) use two strb[t]/ldrb[t] instructions when they are asked to get/put 16-bits. This means that the read/write is not atomic even when performed to a 16-bit-aligned address. This leads to problems with vhost: vhost uses __getuser() to read the vring's 16-bit avail.index field, and if it happens to observe a partial update of the index, wrong descriptors will be used which will lead to a breakdown of the virtio communication. A similar problem exists for __putuser() which is used to write to the vring's used.index field. The reason these functions use strb[t]/ldrb[t] is because strht/ldrht instructions did not exist until ARMv6T2/ARMv7. So we should be easily able to fix this on ARMv7. Also, since all ARMv6 processors also don't actually use the unprivileged instructions anymore for uaccess (since CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS is not used) we can easily fix them too. Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.